Another long day of driving from Catavina to Guerrero Negro, a trip of 146 miles over 5 hours. We started around 8:30 and pulled into the campground at about 3 PM. It was a long a grueling drive on very narrow roads. Our wagon master warned us this morning to be very careful about driving along the edge and if we slipped off the edge, to not jerk the wheel to get us back on the highway but to try to very gradually pull back up onto the road. Yeah, right!
We traveled through more mountains and lots of desert. There were valleys so full of Boojum that it was like a forest and then in the next valley it was full of Cardon cactus and again like a dense forest of cacti. The road was smooth but seemed to have rolling bumps that could throw the RV from side to side, plus the wind was gusting and pushing us around. Add that to the very narrow road and on-coming 18-wheelers and it was a rather harrowing experience. In fact one of our caravan of RVs slid off the road due to a large semi and crumbling road bed. He pulled back on but, his towed car jackknifed, and then he was thrown across the road and launched into the desert! John witnessed the whole thing in his rear-view mirror! The tail gunner and our Green Angel stayed with the victim while the rest of us completed our trip to the campground. Later, the launched RV drove in under his own power with the only damage a bent tow bar. They were very very lucky with many angels watching over them.
We are only spending one night here but on the return back up the peninsula we will get to see the Great Grey Whales. We are camped in open, sand dune desert with no cacti nor bushes near by. Guerrero Negro (which translates into Black Warrior) is a tourist mega for folks who want to see the whales but its main industry is the harvesting of industrial salt. We drove out to the light house that guards the Estero De San Jose where the old Salt Wharf stood. Today, it is a launch area for fishing boats.
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